Rekindling an Old Habit

Late night with nothing do but watch movies,TV, or what not I decided to sift through my college stuff and pulled out the old pipe and tobacco(suprisingly still fresh) and sat out on my back deck and took in the night air mixed with the aroma of straight virginia blended tobacco. I find pipe smoking to be relaxing and great way to spend the evening even better with a cup of joe...it has to be the right cup of joe though I find.

It's been awhile since my last post I'm finding that I have a good streak in me every once in awhile and then I slack off and don't say anything for about a month. A few things have happen in the past fews days I've recently gotten my housing assignment for Southeastern. As I move closer and closer to month of August I find myself more and more confident about going. My attitude is that it's been long enough it time to get back into my role as a student. Though in a sense you never stop being student there is always something to learn be it from God's word or in life.

I find myself as of late getting back into following one of my favorite sports again, that being baseball and my team the Atlanta Braves who are having a rough go of it so far this season current 14.5 games back. Lo and behold I was watching higlight tapes of old season's and I watched as the braves came back to win the Western division(old highlight tapes) from 10 and 11 games back and with the 14th consectutive division title in doubt I know the braves are capable of pulling it off but we'll have wait and see.

thats all for now.

Grace and Peace <><

Getting Closer pt. 2

At the request of friend and fellow blogger adam I figure those who have been following my journey so far since my graduation from CNC. I decided to take a brief sebatacle from being a student instead of starting my seminary training right away. I'm gonna use the next few blog posts to stew over things that I've learned during my one year respid.

I've learn over the past 10 months that there is no such thing as a perfect job. I've been working in what pop culture calls the "real world" dealing with the general public on a day to day basis. Each and everyday I'm faced with challenges that I have either conquer or be conquered by. This has made me realize that I will face the same thing in the ministry field. By working in the regular world for a brief time has enabled me to learn and observe how I react to times of difficulty as I mentioned and make mental notes so that I will be better prepared when they present themselves in the ministry field.

I find it funny how things work sometimes. I think it has finally occured to my Mom that both My brother and I will be moving away; college for my brother and as you all know seminary for me. My mom mentioned to me in passing the other day that if I had any reservations about going Southeastern she said, " You know you can always find a place to live around here and go to Southern Seminary at Maryville College."

with that I will close out this edition stay tuned for more installments.

Grace and Peace <><

Getting Closer pt. 1

At the request of friend and fellow blogger adam I figure those who have been following my journey so far since my graduation from CNC. I decided to take a brief sebatacle from being a student instead of starting my seminary training right away. I'm gonna use the next few blog posts to stew over things that I've learned during my one year respid.

I can say at this point I think I made the right decision I don't think that I was in any way prepared to enter into the living on your own supporting oneself life. During my year off I've been able to finally realize that you must treasure and spend wisely every dollar you make, cause once its gone you gotta wait that 1 week, 2 weeks, and even maybe month for that next paycheck to come around. Fortunately for me my current job has a bi-weekly pay method (ha ha ha).

One thing I've learned is that despite all the things you say upon graduation such as: that you promise to stay in touch and to hang out every once in awhile. I've learned that maintaining those tight knit college friendships that you made become very hard to keep.

thus it has made me aware of the importance of a simple email,phone call.

One Day At A Time

Greetings everyone...it has definantly been awhile since my last post. my schedule has much of the same work, eat, and sleep.

Each day I draw closer to H-hour or moving day when I'll pack up my belongings and head for Wake Forest. I feel that my question marks have finally been answered and I'm able to move down there and not feel that I'm moving into the unknown. This is in part due to the fact that I'm finally starting to get regular correspondence from them.

We have been experiencing lot of death and lost here recently @ FB Concord. A very good family friend died suddenly. He was in the Army the 278TH survived a tour of duty in the current Iraq war to come home and die of a heart attack. For some its hard to understand God in this situation but I trust that God knows what He's doing and that He can even use death to gather people unto his side. I trust that God was finished using my friend and God said "Well Done" and brought him home. People even Christians try to understand the mind of God in situation where He takes a Husband away from a wife, a Dad away from a young family but if we understand the mind of God there was be no reason to have Faith.

"A God comprehended is no God."
- Tersteegen

Grace and Peace <><